All:
Our lives are inundated by media, specifically televised media, to include the Internet, movies and television. If you drop portable video players in there, you've got a whole host of televised goodies to entertain us.
That said, it could be said that much of what we create is influenced by what we watch on all those devices (and there's probably a discussion about the amount of time iPods spend in ears and hands versus books). Now, this thread is not intended to create discourse on how much or how little of any of this you consume. Rather, the discussion focuses on your writing.
More specifically, this is about writing process. To that end, when you're writing your short stories, novella, poetry, novels or whatever else, are you writing them based on experiences outside of the box, or are you reflecting others' ideas into your work? In short, are you replaying and recasting scenes from other works into you novel and not embedding the pages with the richness of experience, study or your own imaginative exploration?
Again, the discussion is not to gauge how much or how little of the product you consume and how it affects your writing (though it is a piece of the discussion). That line of thinking could go on furiously for three or four pages just debating how much "House" we all watch. You could go from the home without a television to the guy with DirecTV who's got every package and is using his dish to help with the SETI project. Average Tv consumer still consumes about 11 hour average every week. So, no need to bicker with the in-betweens.
Further, to quote the bard, there is nothing new under the sun. But, does that mean you're going to draw inspiration from a Baywatch scene or from a live scene at the beach?
Based on the above, 1.) How heavily is your writing influenced by media, and why, 2.) Do you catch yourself being more shallow than deep, and 3.) How do you cure it?
Our lives are inundated by media, specifically televised media, to include the Internet, movies and television. If you drop portable video players in there, you've got a whole host of televised goodies to entertain us.
That said, it could be said that much of what we create is influenced by what we watch on all those devices (and there's probably a discussion about the amount of time iPods spend in ears and hands versus books). Now, this thread is not intended to create discourse on how much or how little of any of this you consume. Rather, the discussion focuses on your writing.
More specifically, this is about writing process. To that end, when you're writing your short stories, novella, poetry, novels or whatever else, are you writing them based on experiences outside of the box, or are you reflecting others' ideas into your work? In short, are you replaying and recasting scenes from other works into you novel and not embedding the pages with the richness of experience, study or your own imaginative exploration?
Again, the discussion is not to gauge how much or how little of the product you consume and how it affects your writing (though it is a piece of the discussion). That line of thinking could go on furiously for three or four pages just debating how much "House" we all watch. You could go from the home without a television to the guy with DirecTV who's got every package and is using his dish to help with the SETI project. Average Tv consumer still consumes about 11 hour average every week. So, no need to bicker with the in-betweens.
Further, to quote the bard, there is nothing new under the sun. But, does that mean you're going to draw inspiration from a Baywatch scene or from a live scene at the beach?
Based on the above, 1.) How heavily is your writing influenced by media, and why, 2.) Do you catch yourself being more shallow than deep, and 3.) How do you cure it?
